I know there are already some existing posts out there but they are about Macs.

So I am trying to reverse engineer Apple’s AirDrop Protocol with an Ubuntu machine. For Mac there is a program called iStumbler, but there isn’t a version for Linux based machines.

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If you are looking at reverse-engineering the AirDrop protocol, I strongly encourage you to take a look at which have done a tremendous effort in that direction. They even have a free Python implementation called opendrop.

See also those related questions, now closed:

You can try wireshark to monitor the local network packets. You can set filters based on the IP address of the machine you are looking to monitor.

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